Captive Audience

Miniserie
2022
TV-MA
46 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,8/10

2906

IHRE BEWERTUNG

In 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner mysteriously vanished on his way home from school. Nearly a decade later, his dramatic return to his family sparked '80s-era "stranger danger" warnings, legal reforms.

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Der Film verfolgt das Leben von Steven Stayner und seiner Familie und taucht in die 50-jährige Geschichte zweier Brüder ein, von denen der eine als Schurke und der andere als Held gilt.Der Film verfolgt das Leben von Steven Stayner und seiner Familie und taucht in die 50-jährige Geschichte zweier Brüder ein, von denen der eine als Schurke und der andere als Held gilt.Der Film verfolgt das Leben von Steven Stayner und seiner Familie und taucht in die 50-jährige Geschichte zweier Brüder ein, von denen der eine als Schurke und der andere als Held gilt.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,8/10

2906

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Kay Stayner

Self - Steven's Mother…

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Ashley Stayner

Self - Steven's Daughter…

• 2022

Corin Nemec

Self - Actor

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Cory Stayner

Self…

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Jody Stayner

Self - Steven's Wife

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Ted Rowlands

Self - Journalist

• 2022

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9destiny_west

Heart breaking

Captive Audience is the story of Steven Stayner who was abducted at a young age only to return to his family years later. This story was made into a two part series titled "I know my first name is Steven' though it was loosely added to.

This documentary goes over the tragedies that continue to fall the Stayner family even upon Steven's return, that included his older brother turning out to be a serial killer.

This documentary is heart breaking and captivating.

To learn what this kid went through and his own heroic act to save another child, is mind blowing.

To see how the media dogged him and his family upon his return and into the future is heart breaking.

This documentary is well worth a watch.

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What was director thinking?

Instead of a straight up true crime documentary, which this story warrants, the director decided to make a mashup of news footage form 1972, interviews from 2022 and for reasons that are beyond me, extensive footage of the late 1980s made for TV mini-series. I cannot for the life of me figure how they thought the addition of the mini-series footage or act outs from the aged actors added anything to this narrative. I struggled through the first episode baffling at this choice. This is a poorly directed doc.

8ecmarmon

Tragic family

I've ripped on Hulu before, this one they got right.

Great storytelling of a tragic family. Producers did an excellent job of focusing on the important pieces. This is a family that goes from one traumatizing blow to the next. My deepest sympathy. I particularly liked having actors who portrayed the subjects in film reading the lines. Very well done it.

One avanue I didn't see explored was the tragic end to Steve. Any connection? They never really go into detail about how Steve died? Is it related to Cory? Was it random? I would genuinely like to know.

One critique... The modern day Geppetto calling himself a "mitigation expert" added very little.

8camerong-73357

See this as a psychological study and not true crime

I think many of the low reviews for this are coming from people who expected something different than what this is trying to do. I think this series is trying to piece together how Steven Stayner's kidnapping and return along with the media attention had a psychological effect on Cary Stayner and possibly led him to become a murderer.

I think the psychological aspects of this incident and how the family was impacted are where the director wants the viewer's attention. We see this in how Kay Stayner describes her husband's opposition to therapy for Steven. The 1989 made for TV movie mentioned in this also alludes to the extra attention given Steven and seemingly taken form Cary. I also think that having the actors from that movie reading the scripted lines was an artistic move. Many are saying it is pretentious but the actual people aren't available to speak for themselves.

7thejdrage

Interesting ........... especially connecting the 2 brothers

I remember both news stories, but did not put them together - because ... I just didn't.

All families have tragedies, but this family has incredible ones.

There are lots of complaints about how it was done and what what was left out. There's always someone complaining!!

I thought it was overwhelming enough as it is!

It's heavy and unreal. To think that a family could endure what it has is incredible. I am exhausted.

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The director later stated in an interview that despite allowing the mitigation specialist for Cary Stayner's defense statement that he found a history of abuse, mental illness, and alcoholism in the Stayner family to remain in, she chose not to address it or ask the interviewed family members about it. In reality, the series leaves out a large amount of information, including the fact that child molestation was rife in the family and the father was one of the perpetrators, along with an uncle and the maternal grandfather. The uncle was murdered in 1990, the case is still unsolved. The grandfather lived near Kenneth Parnell when Steven was kidnapped in 1972.

The private investigator who was interviewed is aware, as are many other people, that despite the narrative that has been fed to the public, Cary Stayner is only guilty of one murder and was railroaded and took the fall for the actual killers (the men who were initially arrested for the crime) in the three murders for which he was sentenced to death. There was a large amount of incompetence and corruption in local law enforcement, and the trial was rigged. Kay Stayner stated in an interview after the trial that she doesn't believe Cary committed those murders either, and pointed out that without his confession, which was full of major discrepancies, the state had no case, but has never fought for her son's innocence, perhaps because she fears the family secrets coming to light again.